forbidden word: prostitute
prostitute
noun
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a person who engages in sexual intercourse or other sex acts for money; sex worker.
Synonyms: strumpet, trollop, courtesan, streetwalker, call girl -
a person who willingly uses their talent or ability in a base and unworthy way, usually for money.
verb (used with object)
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to sell or offer (oneself) to provide sex acts for money.
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to put to any base or unworthy use.
to prostitute one’s talents.
Other Word Forms
- prostitutor noun
- prostitution noun
- unprostituted adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of prostitute¹
First recorded in 1530–40; from Latin prōstitūta and prōstitūtus, noun uses of feminine and masculine forms of prōstitūtus, past participle of prōstituere “to place before, expose (for sale),” equivalent to prō- “before” + -stitū-, combining form of statuere “to make stand” + -tus past participle suffix; pro- ¹, status
Related Words
from — Dictionary.com | Meanings & Definitions of English Words. (n.d.). In Dictionary.com.
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example sentences: prostitute
When one of the agents refused to pay, the prostitute protested and word leaked out.
— William Neuman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
Howard is tossing a prostitute out of his car in full view of Cliff Main.—
Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2022
The victim, a prostitute, had a male customer come to her room.
— Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 30 Jan. 2020
Read more: In Ingram’s case, the lawsuit claims deputies accused the boyfriend of trying to pick up a prostitute and seized the car.
— Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 5 Feb. 2020
No kid needs to watch a movie about a Manhattan prostitute who kills one of her johns.
— Wesley Morris, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
The corner drug peddlers and prostitutes are all but gone.
— Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 16 Mar. 2020
It’s got to be tough being in that kind of business, being a prostitute.
— Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Aug. 2021
The host then paired each up with a prostitute, and hand-in-hand the couples left for private rooms, Shedd testified.
— Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2022
For his part, Napthaly dredged up an old story that de Young’s mother had once been a prostitute.
— Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2021
Their only friend is the son of a prostitute who lives in a sagging cabin nearby.
— Washington Post, 3 May 2021
That’s the case with Miss Beauties, a prostitute who has been brutalized.
— David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2021
There’s even an insane sequence in which a young Kravitz saves a teenage prostitute from a pimp and stashes her in his bedroom.
— Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 16 Oct. 2020
The teen is described in court documents as a prostitute.
— Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 15 Apr. 2022
In a more recent outrage, a group of officers passed around a 19-year-old prostitute.
— Douglas Starr, Science | AAAS, 26 Mar. 2020
That, and sheltering the prostitute Roslyn with whom he’s fallen madly in love.
— Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 24 May 2022
Three young boys befriend a prostitute named V. After a striptease, V drives the boys home to the suburbs but ends up staying once her car breaks down.
— Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com, 27 Mar. 2020
The night Maricella died, she was punished for yelling at a fellow inmate who had called her a prostitute at 6:30 p.m.
— jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2020
Blake Lively stars as a druggie prostitute whose family was lost in a plane crash.
— Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 8 Feb. 2020
The aging prostitute and the young orphan clash at first but soon grow to see each other in a way that no one else does, and the song rides on the emotions of their story into the end credits.—
Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2021
In 1836, as the Sun and the Herald dueled over coverage of a prostitute’s murder, Bennett fully made his name.
— James M. Lundberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2020
His mother was an addict and a prostitute; what childhood did Coco have?
— Rosy Cordero, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2021
The video shows the girl asking the employee for food, then being encouraged by the employee to become a prostitute.
— David K. Li, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2022
An ex-convict chauffeurs a tall, thin prostitute around London for a mobster.
— Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
The woman involved was not a prostitute, the sheriff’s office confirmed.
— Peter Aitken, Fox News, 28 Nov. 2021
A week later, a second prostitute, Matilda Clover, woke neighbors with her screams.
— Tom Nolan, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2021
They were all charged with soliciting a prostitute, Judd said.
— NBC News, 17 Mar. 2022
He was released on bond and was busted during the sting for soliciting a prostitute.
— Landon Mion, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2022
In a slight twist on the film’s plot, Bernthal plays a male prostitute who was wrongfully convicted of murder and served years in prison before his sentence was overturned.
— Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2022
But Monterey becomes far less appealing when a young prostitute turns up dead on the outskirts of town, then another and yet another.
— Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
In a follow up interview, the girl said that a pimp was prostituting her out.
— Tony Rizzo, kansascity, 12 Sep. 2017
His mother, who could not read or write, sometimes prostituted herself to keep food on the table.
— New York Times, 5 Dec. 2019
The woman testified that Tawfeeq talked to her about how to prostitute herself to make extra money.
— Amanda Marrazzo, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2019
The episode begins with the radical feminist and writer prostituting herself in the back of a car with a man whose name does not matter.
— Candice Frederick, Harper’s BAZAAR, 18 Oct. 2017
The victim told police that Veasley spoke to her about prostituting herself and provided her with a pack of condoms.
— Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2020
But over the years, like in Venice and Barcelona, floods of visitors have overwhelmed local lives — from puking stoners to prostitute stalkers.
— Ruben Munsterman, Fortune, 9 June 2020
At the other end is the caricature, butt of flabby jokes, trussed in Las Vegas gaud, voice prostituted to a huge orchestra.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2019
A Bridgeport man who prostituted and beat a 15-year-old girl pleaded guilty Friday to a federal charge of sex trafficking of a minor.
— Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 12 May 2017
At night, while her mom prostituted, Deshae would often stay with Khaled’s brother or at a 24-hour day care—but even that was common in Vegas, where parents tend to work odd hours.
— Jeremy Fuchs, SI.com, 10 May 2018
Kamala doesn’t care if Willie was good…women who prostitute themselves only care about money and prestige.
— Jennifer Wright, Harper’s BAZAAR, 29 Jan. 2019
Celia now takes refuge in a ravine beneath a highway overpass with other homeless children who dumpster dive for food and prostitute themselves for a few dollars or the promise of a hot meal or drugs.
— Elizabeth Hand, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
Two Georgia men are under arrest in Alabama, accused of taking a woman to Tuscaloosa to prostitute her.
— Carol Robinson, AL.com, 23 Jan. 2018
From the age of eight, Moochie was brutally tortured and grotesquely enslaved, raped, and prostituted by a sadistic stepfather.
— Nell Scovell, Vanities, 22 Mar. 2017
And young girls continued to be prostituted on the site, the federal indictment alleges.
— Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2018
A man who pleaded guilty to forcing women to prostitute themselves on Backpage.com was sentenced to federal prison yesterday.
— Ivana Hrynkiw, AL.com, 28 June 2017
Science and legalities aside, the reality is that no child who is prostituted does so free of compulsion.
— Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 23 Feb. 2017
But eventually a story emerged about a couple of women who had gone to Lusaka for school, run out of money for food, and wound up prostituting themselves and being trafficked, never to return to their village.
— Kate Cunningham, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2017
The indictment discusses another girl who was murdered after being prostituted on Backpage, a case in which the killer then attempted to burn his victim’s body.
— Author: Tom Jackman, Mark Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2018
Police found other similar accusations against Koalani, as well as a woman who prostituted for him.
— Kristina Davis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Oct. 2017
Usually such efforts lead to sagas of unrelenting grimness: mothers who prostitute daughters, and men who forcibly inject runaways with drugs to hook them, a practice known as guerrilla pimping.
— Author: Jan Hoffman, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 Aug. 2017
Prosecutors said that Hood was involved in prostituting four other people on Backpage.
— Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2017
A Boynton Beach man is facing the possibility of life in prison for allegedly prostituting a 16-year-old girl, federal authorities said Thursday.
— Tonya Alanez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 15 June 2017
Her pimp, Anthony, simply could not pass up another opportunity to prostitute a woman Lee knew as Misty, and whom Anthony had savagely beaten one day.
— Kevin Litten, NOLA.com, 17 Feb. 2018
Court documents suggested that the girl had a falling out with Horenstein and allegedly ended up being prostituted by another woman, 27-year-old Souprina Blanc.
— Fox News, 4 Dec. 2019
The problem is these institutions of higher learning have prostituted their academic integrity and turned themselves into institutions of higher earning.
— Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 Feb. 2018
from — How to Use prostitute in a Sentence. (n.d.). In Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
September 24th, 2025
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Great topic ! I have known many in in the work place in politics and on the streets as a biker, yes sex workers also but not intimately but as a guardian at times .As a result if I needed a place to chill now and then , they took me in while they were at work. They are all traffics in some way shape or form on all different levels including promotions and DEI hires are possibly traffics the worse. Again This and God many other sociaital things is What choose my path to become a social worker.
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Prostitutes exist / too oft they are denied / this reality’s truths
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